landscaper

Additional Information

• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 32 to 40 hours per week
• Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
• Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years

Work site environment

• Odours
• Noisy
• Outdoors

Tasks

• Manage landscaping projects
• Prepare conceptual designs
• Estimate costs
• Prepare presentation graphics and drawings
• Survey and assess designated sites
• Read and interpret blueprints
• Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
• Apply fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides, pesticides and other lawn care products
• Apply various treatments such as pruning, spraying, repairing damaged areas and injecting with treatment solutions
• Assess the health of lawns
• Examine trees and shrubs to diagnose problems and disease
• Plan and co-ordinate the growth and use of plants for landscaping, ornamental uses and other purposes
• Plan and construct landscaped environments which may include trees, shrubberies, lawns, fences, decks, patios and other landscape structures
• Plant and maintain private and public lawns and gardens
• Plant and move trees

Construction specialization

• Automated irrigation system
• Fieldstone paths
• Interlocking brick
• Ornamental ponds, fountains and waterfalls
• Poured concrete
• Retaining walls
• Rock gardens
• Stone garden walls

Area of specialization

• Landscape design
• Landscape construction
• Plant knowledge and identification

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Attention to detail
• Repetitive tasks
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Own tools/equipment

• Steel-toed safety boots
• Gloves
• Mask

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Excellent oral communication
• Excellent written communication
• Organized
• Team player